Moved some old instructions for setting up a tileserver that Johnson wrote to https://github.com/osm-in/tileserver
Anyone interested in setting up a custom tileserver with Indic language rendering, please feel free to expand. On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Chetan H A <chetanh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I totally agree to follow current convention we have now. Multilingual > names can't be supported in India. We have 22 official languages in India > and If every language names were added with English names will clutter the > map. It's good to add separately using " name:lang=* " tag. > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/search?q=name%3A > > Best, > Chethan > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Not having map tiles available for the various languages is definitely a >> problem, which motivates one to tag in such a way just so that the local >> name is visible. Efforts to create an Indic language tileserver have not >> really taken off, and probably this is what we should reconsider with more >> seriousness. >> >> Experiments so far: >> - http://openstreetmap.in/demo.html >> <http://openstreetmap.in/demo.html#9.99/13.9372/75.6525> which is a >> little futuristic but very flexible for as many languages as possible. One >> blocker is that complex text shaping to render Indic scripts correctly is >> unknown when this will happen >> https://github.com/osm-in/openstreetmap.in/issues/14#issuecomment-193619651 >> - http://mlm.jochentopf.com looks like a good experiment worth >> replicating, but there are not much details on how it was done >> - http://yogiks.github.io/osm-kn/map/ World Kannada map made by Yogesh. >> At the moment probably the most practical approach. >> >> If we have a regularly updated working demo of Indic language tiles for >> the major languages, this could better demonstrate the practical >> application of using the name tags correctly. Anyone have other experiments >> to share? >> >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Yogesh K S <yog...@itforchange.net> >> wrote: >> >>> I too agree with keeping the current convention of name tags for >>> multilingual names. Belgium has just two languages and in context of our >>> regional languages, first mapper rule can create conflicts as Arun >>> indicated previously. Perhaps we should try to improve the current state of >>> multilingual names in India - >>> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/search?q=name%3A >>> >>> cheers, >>> yogi >>> >>> >>> On 07/05/2016 06:19 PM, I Chengappa wrote: >>> >>> It would help greatly if mappers could see names in other languages on a >>> rendered map. I see that the demo, for instance at >>> http://openstreetmap.in/demo.html#9.99/13.9372/75.6525 is still just a >>> demo. >>> >>> On 5 July 2016 at 07:19, Srravya C <srravy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Found a little more about this topic in a discussion here >>>> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_India#Use_English_for_the_.22name.22_tag>. >>>> We could put the details about multilingual naming for India in this >>>> page <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names>. So that >>>> anybody referring to this page in the future for naming convention, will >>>> get an idea about existing conventions followed for India. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Thejesh GN < <i...@thejeshgn.com> >>>> i...@thejeshgn.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I think the existing convention works really well. Use name tag for >>>>> latin script and specific language tag for that language names. I think >>>>> this makes it easy to work and also divide work. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jul 4, 2016 11:34 PM, "Arun Ganesh" <arun.plane...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Bringing this up since there are recent edits adding multilingual >>>>>> labels to the `name` tag [1][2]. >>>>>> >>>>>> The current convention that has been followed is to use `name` for >>>>>> the local name in latin script. The reasoning if I remember was two fold: >>>>>> - English being one of the official languages, latin script is widely >>>>>> used in cities and in public signages in smaller towns. Only in villages >>>>>> it >>>>>> is uncommon. >>>>>> - Keeping the tagging convention simple[3], that could be used >>>>>> throughout the country in a standard way >>>>>> >>>>>> Keeping just one name in each tag, we have been able to avoid issues >>>>>> like the first mapper rule[4] that could cause unnecessary regional >>>>>> conflicts over ordering of scripts like in Belgium (and they have just >>>>>> two >>>>>> languages). >>>>>> >>>>>> Since we can add the regional names in their own name:lang tag, no >>>>>> data is ultimately lost, and it is upto the data consumer to choose which >>>>>> language to support for the user. >>>>>> >>>>>> Would be great to hear positives and negatives of this approach and >>>>>> how it benefits the public Is it time to revise this convention to be >>>>>> more >>>>>> regional rather than national? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40472998 >>>>>> [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40479683 >>>>>> [3] >>>>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India#Naming_in_different_scripts_and_languages >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Arun Ganesh >>>>>> @planemad >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Talk-in mailing list >>>>>> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >>>>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Talk-in mailing list >>>>> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >>>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-in mailing list >>>> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-in mailing >>> listTalk-in@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-in mailing list >>> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Arun Ganesh >> @planemad >> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-in mailing list >> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > > -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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